Rerailing device



Dec. 1, 1942. J. A. MURRAY RERAILING DEVICE 2 Sheets- Sheet 1 Filed June 20, 194-1 INVENTOR.

Dec. 1, 1942. J, A, MURRAY 2,303,489

RERAILING DEVICE Filed June 20, 1941 Z'Sheets-Sfiet 2 IN VEN TOR.

'BYM' Patented Dec. 1, 1942 f" j2,'s0s,4s

BERAILING DEVICE James A. Murray, Minot, N. l)ak.

Application June 20, {1941, Serial No. 399,015

1 Claim.

This invention aims to provide novel means for rerailing a piece of rolling stock, novel means being supplied for preventing the device from moving endwise under the thrust of a car wheel, and the device being so constructed that it can be housed in small compass when not in use.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the inven tion.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 shows in top plan, a device constructed in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation wherein parts are broken away;

Figs. 3 and 4 are cross sections taken, respectively, on the lines 3-3 and l-4 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a bottom plan showing the parts as they Will appear when the device is assembled for storage.

In carrying out the invention, there is provided a hollow body I, made of metal, as are all other parts of the structure, preferably. The body I includes a low side wall 2 and a high side wall 3, the top 4 of the body having an upward convexity from end to end, and a lateral slant.

Midway between the ends of the body I, openings 5 are formed. The numeral 6 designates a stop bar, which is a little less than half as long as the body I. In its outer end, the stop bar Ii has a tie-engaging seat or notch I. The inner end of the stop bar 6 is mounted to swing vertically on a shaft 8. Bushings 9 are mounted on the shaft 8, and their inner ends engage opposite sides of the stop bar 6, to hold the stop bar midway between the side walls 2 and 3 of the body. The outer ends of the bushings 9 have notches or openings I0, adapted to receive securing devices II, such as cotter pins, which pass through the shaft 8. The ends of the shaft 8 extend beyond the bushings 9 and are received in the openings 5 of the side walls 2 and 3 of the body I, the securing devices engaging the inner surfaces of the side walls, to prevent the shaft 8 from being disengaged therefrom. There are openings or seats I2 in the high side wall 3, on opposite sides of the shaft 8. The openings I2 are alined axially with openings I4 in the low side wall 2.

Retainers I5 are provided. They include hook bolts I6, each having a nose II. On each hook bolt I 6, an anchor I8 is slidably and rotatably mounted. At its inner end, the anchor I8 is supplied with a finger I9 extended lengthwise of the bolt IE. Outwardly of the anchor I8, a nut 20 is threaded on the hook bolt I8. removal of the nut 20 from the hook bolt I6 may be prevented by a cotter pin 2| in the outer end of the bolt.

The device is used in pairs. The upper angle of a tie is received in the seat I of the stop bar 6, to prevent the body I from moving lengthwise under the thrust of a car wheel. The low side Wall 2 of the body I is disposed against the outer side of one rail. The hook bolts I6 are passed under the rail, and the noses ll of the hook bolts are engaged in the openings I2 of the high side wall 3. Under the impulse of the nuts 2! the anchors I8 are crowded against the inner edge of the base flange of the rail, and the fingers I9 overhang the base flange of the rail. Thus it will be seen that the body I is prevented from moving endwise, owing to the presence of the stop bar 6, and the body cannot move up or down, or horizontally, owing to the presence of the hook bolts I6, the anchors I8 and the nuts 20.

The device is used in a pair, there being one rerailer for each railroad rail. The stop bars 3 of the rerailer of the pair are engaged with the same railroad tie, and, therefore, the rerailers will be alined, crosswise of the track.

The article has features which recommend it when it is not in use, as well as when it is in use. The stop bar 6 is swung upwardly. The hook bolts I6 are inserted through the openings I2 and I4. One hook bolt passes under the stop 6 and holds it housed within the body I. The nuts 20 are replaced on the bolts I6. The anchors I8, if desired, may be mounted on the hook bolts I6, Within the contour of the body I. The article, therefore, can be disposed in small compass when not in use.

The general operation of a device of the class described is known. The wheel of a piece of derailed rolling stock rides upwardly along the top 4, and is carried laterally, the wheel being replaced on the railroad rail.

It will be noted that the stop 6 can be swung end for end, so that the tie-engaging portion of Complete the stop may be disposed adjacent to opposite ends of the body, thereby to make the rerailer effective in connection with'derailed rolling stock which has to be rerailed by movement in opposite directions.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is: 1

As an article of manufacture, a knocked-down rerailing device comprising a hollow, open bottomed body having awheel replacing part, a stop bar shaped at one end for engagement with a tie, the bar being housed within the body and being extended longitudinally thereof, mounting the opposite end of the bar in the body at a place about midway between the ends of means for chor.

the body, for downward swinging movement 4 through the open bottom of the body into working position, the body including side walls having oppositely disposed openings, a bolt inserted through the openings and located below the bar and engaging the bar to prevent it from swinging downwardly out of housed position within the body, the bolt having a hook at one end, a nut threaded on the opposite end portion of the bolt, the hook and the nutbeing located on opposite sides of the body, to prevent the bolt from being detached from the body, and an anchor shaped for engagement with a rail and located in the body, the bolt passing removably through the an- JAMES A. MURRAY. 

